I have to deploy one more cisco 2950 to our network... what i wanted to do is just copy the config file of another 2950- which is already on the network, and just change the ip address after that. My problem is I forgot how to do it using ftp.. I have filezilla client and server, as well as tera term. I had used filezilla once to download config from one of our switch, but i forgot the steps. And I'm confuse which one I will use to download the config, filezilla client or file zilla server?... Or can I just copy and paste the output of the config from my teraterm?? Appreciate your help

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You can copy the config from the first switch to the FTP server and then from the FTP server to the second switch. Be sure the second switch isn't connected to the network, but instead with a direct connection to the FTP server. Otherwise, you will have network problems with both switches having the same IP address.

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FTP / TFTP or copy / paste using Notepad and PuTTY / Tera Term etc is the easiest way. Saving to a thumb drive just adds an extra two steps that aren't required. And none of the 2900 series switches have USB ports anyway... well not for that anyway. New 2960's have mini-USB ports for the new USB console cables.